John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY CRAIG MURRAY IN CONSORTIUM NEWS
“The Simple Explanation for the Betrayal of Britain’s Envoy
“Craig Murray has a strong hunch about why someone would leak Kim Darroch’s scathing comments about Trump”
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/07/10/the-simple-explanation-for-the-betrayal-of-britains-envoy/?unapproved=374384&moderation-hash=9e2db8191c3309ba52faed708becf841#comment-374384
Very interesting little article.
The portrait here of Kim Darroch is so different than what we see in the mainline British press, it is actually a bit startling.
His newspaper portrait in Britain, at least in the press I read, is of an extremely able man, a classy diplomat.
But what we have here is a kind of British Trump, a crude loud-mouth and abusive man.
This is a terrific example of how a story can be made to appear almost unrecognizably different.
The truth? I am not sure when it comes to government and foreign policy anymore we ever get any truth.
Deception and misrepresentation are the norms simply because governments like those of the United States and Britain are engaged full-time in so many dark imperial projects all over the world.
The people never voted for much of what is being done in their name and might well not support much of it, if only they knew.
I'm afraid this is just one more fragment of evidence - along with such matters as what really has happened in Syria, what really is going on with Iran, why the United States never acts to rein in Israel and impose a fair settlement, day-and-night Russophobia, the assault on China, and so much more - telling us what a dreamworld we now live in. Perhaps “nightmare” is a more fitting word than “dream.”
Almost nothing in our press and from our politicians is real anymore. There's an entire world of government activity that goes unreported and unexamined. If one insists on using the unattractive term “fake news,” – unattractive because of the class of people who regularly use it - its main application should be to Western governments.
Obviously, under such circumstances, references to "democracy" or even "democratic" are meaningless. The people are simply not aware of what their "elected" governments are doing.
Whatever Kim Darroch’s character really is and whatever the motivation for someone leaking his embarrassing past confidential observations of Donald Trump, the observations, of course, remain valid. We know that from the best possible source, our own regular observations.
Trump is indeed an emperor without any clothes. An embarrassingly obvious man in his words and acts. But, as with so many things in Washington, you are really not allowed to say that.
